local variables in bash

Levi Pearson <levi at cold.org> writes:
> Merrill Oveson <moveson at gmail.com> writes:
>>> My original question was:
>>>> Would doing this in the C shell solve this problem?
>>>> If so, and forgive my ignorance, does the C shell have all the usual easy to
>> do: mkdir, mv, awk, sed, etc - capabilities?
>> No, it wouldn't solve the "problem", which exists in pretty much all the
> languages of the shell era. It would also give you even more problems,
> because csh is even more broken than other shells.
>> If you want a modern scripting language, use a modern scripting
> language. Shells ain't it.
Actually, I take that back. A google search has told me that ksh93
specifies static scoping (see q28):
http://www.kornshell.com/doc/faq.html
So, there you go, you just need a half-decent shell.
--Levi